People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1894 — MANY NEEDY VETERANS. [ARTICLE]

MANY NEEDY VETERANS.

Pension Claimants Ask to Have Their Cases Made Special.

; Washington, Jan. 9.—Commissioner Loehren is daily receiving ah unprecedented number of applications to have pension claims made special by reason of the fact that the claimants are- in distressed circumstances and in ungent need of help. Never before in the history of the office has there been; so much suffering among old soldiers, and the commissioner is doing his utmost to relieve them. Every case that comes . to his attention is made special, and ■ if it be found that the-claim is a good one, it is immediately allowed. Many 1 cases have been taken.out of their regtular turn, examined aad allowed within forty-eight hours.